Somewhat over a yr and a part in the past, Verizon CFO Fran “ShamWow” Shammo advised the arena that his company was a “leader” not a “follower” and that they wouldn’t be leaping at the rollover knowledge bandwagon. If the picture under, at the side of a affirmation from a source of ours is to be believed, Shammo will have some explaining to do. Through this Friday, Verizon may just introduce now not handiest “carryover” knowledge, however a security mode and loose roaming to Canada and Mexico, as smartly. All of those new options will have to release inside of The Verizon Plan.

Within the symbol under, which is claimed to be a display seize from Verizon’s Testman web site, a website they steadily use to check out incoming product launches, shall we see the next on Friday:

Carryover Data: It’s precisely like rollover knowledge from AT&T, in that when you have unused knowledge from this month, you’ll have the ability to use that unused knowledge subsequent month and subsequent month handiest. This will have to be incorporated in S, M, L, XL, and XXL plans at no additional price.

Protection Mode (throttled limitless knowledge): This feels like a function that may be added on that permits you to proceed to make use of Verizon knowledge once you have long past over your per month allotment at no additional price. The information speeds can be “decreased” closely, I’d believe, till you both purchase extra high-speed knowledge or hit your subsequent billing cycle. This choice is best loose to XL and XXL plans. In case you are on some other plan (S, M, and L), you’ll have so as to add on Protection Mode for $5 per thirty days.

Free Data/Textual content Roaming to Mexico and Canada: Smartly, loose for some. Like Protection Mode, Verizon will permit XL and XXL plans to make use of textual content and knowledge allowances when in Mexico and Canada. Unlimited from america to Mexico and Canada could also be incorporated. In case you are on a S, M, or L plan, you’ll need to pay additional for this option.

Once more, here's the picture, which first surfaced over at reddit.

As I discussed above, no less than one source of ours used to be in a position to verify the adjustments to The Verizon Plan and stated to be expecting them on Friday. We’ve additionally reached out to Verizon for a extra authentic affirmation and will update this submit if we listen again.

UPDATE: Verizon spoke back through pronouncing that they're “going to have some fireworks subsequent week” and to stick tuned.